The proposed law also offered the US Department of Justice an expedited process to shut down foreign-based services by enabling it to request a US-based domain name registrar to block a service.

For services registered with non-US registrars, the law would provide a mechanism to force a network service provider to "take reasonable steps that will prevent a domain name from resolving to that domain name's Internet protocol address."

It also targeted the revenue streams of torrent search sites, by preventing contextual ad services from serving ads on a site that faced such an order

U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, who introduced the legislation, said the internet "has become a tool for online thieves to sell counterfeit and pirated goods, making hundreds of millions of dollars off of stolen American intellectual property."

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